Halloween Origami

October 31st, 2007

Had to do it in class. Thought it was cute enough to share. If you’re looking for an instant lesson – it’s an easy artsy-craftsy one to pull off. My Japanese Teacher of English (JTE) pulled up this site – Halloween Origami. We had lots of fun with the jack-o’-lantern and the ghost. What rules is that for origami-impaired people like myself, they provide fairly easy to comprehend animations along with the diagrams. And the diagrams are made to be printed out. Nice. (The English content lay in teaching the instruction words and phrases to the students. No Japanese was used in making these pieces. “Fold,” “crease,” “flap,” etc. Simple vocabulary stuff. Not particularly brilliant – but it gives you just enough justification to do something goofy in class.)

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  • I once saw an origami Yoda (PDF) that blew my mind. (Not as much as this guy did, though.)
  • Michaels
    Meh, the only good origami I can make is the highly technical "scrunched up paper ball" model. Oh yeah, I rock at that one.
  • It's on my list of things to do, but as it's a rather frivolous thing.. it's going to have to go under "go to Japanese lesson" and "Watch Prison Break."

    But I'll get one.. soon.
  • Ha ha - it's good to know if and when these little things are helpful or interesting to anyone. Glad I could kill a lesson plan for you. :-) (Now get a Gravatar, and things will be even more peachy keen.)
  • Friday's class plan: Done.
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